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This was a great collection of stories set in the same future India as McDonald's River of Gods, which I also really liked. My personal favorite was "The Little Goddess" which was about a schizophrenic Nepalese girl that is exiled to India after injuring herself and thereby disqualifying herself from being a goddess. To survive in India, she has to become a very unique smuggler. I don't want to say anymore for fear of spoiling a creative, well-told story.

I think McDonald's strong point is creating a believable, living and breathing world and then analyzing all sorts of cool technologies and ideas within that world. He's a little weaker on actual story telling. Most of the stories in this book don't have much of a plot. In fact, the final story is basically a retelling of the entire future "history" of India through the eyes of "Brahmin," and definitely should NOT be read before you read River of Gods.

Some of the phrases McDonald uses (like Brahmin, for example) are borrowed from Indian and/or middle-eastern culture and applied to the new technologies and genetic mutations he's invented for his future. This occasionally was a problem for me as I read the stories, trying to remember what different terms meant. For example, was a Djinn a ghost or was it the physical manifestation of an advanced AI personality? River of Gods had a glossary at the end to help you keep those terms straight. Cyberabad Days definitely could have also benefited from a glossary, especially for readers like me, who read River of Gods a couple years ago.


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Cyberabad Days Ian McDonald 9781591026990 Books Reviews

I am a huge fan of this author but this is not worth buying. One or two good pieces, the rest crap.
Well written to say the least. This was my first time reading this author. Each chapter could be considered a short story in itself. Well done background. The politics are not as developed as the characters involved. Which is my reason for three stars.
The last chapter wants to be a new book or is the author's hook as to what's comming next. I reccommed it to any one looking for some insight as to where the future of AI might be going.
I enjoyed "River of Gods", but "Cyberabad Days" generated very little empathy for the characters for me. The main characters were mostly shallowly-drawn and I couldn't really give a damn what happened to them. I'm not a professional reviewer, or even an English Major, but there is a big difference between RoG and CD in terms of my involvement with the characters. Sure it's comparing a novel with mostly short stories, but the author's obvious talents didn't transfer over to the characters, in my opinion.
I give the author high marks for his depiction of a future India and the medical and informational advances. He is original and talented. Just make me care about the characters.
This review is anomalous, given the higher stars awarded by others. In this regard, my prior reads were Bacigalupi's "Pump Six" and "The Windup Girl". In both these books the characters (all of them) grabbed me like a treble hook in a catfish
and kept me involved to the last page. So the bar was left pretty high when I got to RoG and CD. RoG comfortably cleared the bar, but CD caught the bar in the face.
Sorry, fans. Maybe his next in this arc will be better.
After many visits, I've come to the conclusion that India is impossible to describe - it has to be experienced. Ian McDonald has managed to project a future India and at the same time capture much of the unique texture of the country. Kudos are due for delivering a feel for India today. Projecting a future India without loosing the feel for the country is truly impressive.

Here's the problem there are really only four themes around which each of these stories are written, and each story includes all of the themes. By the middle of the book, the wonderful creativity seems to turn into a varied retelling of the same basic vision. By the end of the book the constant retelling just grinds along.

It's worth a read just for the uniqueness of the non-Western approach to science fiction, but you could read any two of the stories in the collection and not miss the rest.
This was a great collection of stories set in the same future India as McDonald's River of Gods, which I also really liked. My personal favorite was "The Little Goddess" which was about a schizophrenic Nepalese girl that is exiled to India after injuring herself and thereby disqualifying herself from being a goddess. To survive in India, she has to become a very unique smuggler. I don't want to say anymore for fear of spoiling a creative, well-told story.

I think McDonald's strong point is creating a believable, living and breathing world and then analyzing all sorts of cool technologies and ideas within that world. He's a little weaker on actual story telling. Most of the stories in this book don't have much of a plot. In fact, the final story is basically a retelling of the entire future "history" of India through the eyes of "Brahmin," and definitely should NOT be read before you read River of Gods.

Some of the phrases McDonald uses (like Brahmin, for example) are borrowed from Indian and/or middle-eastern culture and applied to the new technologies and genetic mutations he's invented for his future. This occasionally was a problem for me as I read the stories, trying to remember what different terms meant. For example, was a Djinn a ghost or was it the physical manifestation of an advanced AI personality? River of Gods had a glossary at the end to help you keep those terms straight. Cyberabad Days definitely could have also benefited from a glossary, especially for readers like me, who read River of Gods a couple years ago.